Prinplup Raid Counters Guide

Prinplup

Prinplup is a Tier 3 raid boss. The ideal recommended group size is 1-3 for well-prepared trainers. Make sure you are armed with the correct movesets for your counters.

Prinplup cannot be shiny from raids.

Prinplup can be caught in the following CP range:

• 914 CP to 972 CP at Level 20, no weather boost
• 1142 CP to 1215 CP at Level 25, weather boosted during Rainy weather

Prinplup is a Water-type Pokémon. Prinplup is weak to Electric and Grass-type moves. It takes reduced damage from Fire, Ice, Steel, and Water-type moves.

Top Prinplup Counters

Reminder: Mega-Evolved Pokémon give other Pokémon special bonuses when brought to a Raid Battle. While a Mega-Evolved Pokémon is on the battlefield, all Trainers’ Pokémon receive an attack boost to all their attacks and gain an additional attack boost if their attack types match the Mega-Evolved Pokémon’s type(s).

#	Attacker	Fast Move	Charge Move	Faints	TTW
1.	Mega Sceptile	Bullet Seed Grass	Frenzy Plant Grass	2	84s
2.	Kartana	Razor Leaf Grass	Leaf Blade Grass	2	90s
3.	Mega Rayquaza	Dragon Tail Dragon	Dragon Ascent Flying	2	94s
4.	Zekrom	Charge Beam Electric	Fusion Bolt Electric	1	97s
5.	Shadow Raikou	Thunder Shock Electric	Wild Charge Electric	2	93s
6.	Xurkitree	Thunder Shock Electric	Discharge Electric	2	93s
7.	Mega Manectric	Thunder Fang Electric	Wild Charge Electric	2	94s
8.	Shadow Electivire	Thunder Shock Electric	Wild Charge Electric	3	93s
9.	Mega Venusaur	Vine Whip Grass	Frenzy Plant Grass	1	101s
10.	Shadow Magnezone	Spark Electric	Wild Charge Electric	2	97s
11.	Shadow Zapdos	Thunder Shock Electric	Thunderbolt Electric	2	96s
12.	Therian Thundurus	Volt Switch Electric	Wildbolt Storm Electric	3	97s
13.	Zarude	Vine Whip Grass	Power Whip Grass	1	106s
14.	Mega Ampharos	Volt Switch Electric	Zap Cannon Electric	2	105s
15.	Shadow Sceptile	Bullet Seed Grass	Frenzy Plant Grass	3	100s
16.	Shadow Luxray	Spark Electric	Wild Charge Electric	3	99s
17.	Shadow Tangrowth	Vine Whip Grass	Power Whip Grass	2	103s
18.	Shadow Venusaur	Vine Whip Grass	Frenzy Plant Grass	2	102s
19.	Shadow Mewtwo	Psycho Cut Psychic	Thunderbolt Electric	2	104s
20.	Mega Latios	Dragon Breath Dragon	Solar Beam Grass	2	112s
21.	Shadow Torterra	Razor Leaf Grass	Frenzy Plant Grass	3	106s
22.	Raikou	Thunder Shock Electric	Wild Charge Electric	2	110s
23.	Shadow Exeggutor	Bullet Seed Grass	Solar Beam Grass	3	108s
24.	Alola Shadow Exeggutor	Bullet Seed Grass	Solar Beam Grass	3	109s
25.	Roserade	Magical Leaf Grass	Grass Knot Grass	2	110s
26.	Shadow Manectric	Thunder Fang Electric	Wild Charge Electric	4	107s
27.	Electivire	Thunder Shock Electric	Wild Charge Electric	3	110s
28.	Shadow Porygon-Z	Lock-On Normal	Solar Beam Grass	3	110s
29.	Primal Groudon	Mud Shot Ground	Solar Beam Grass	3	110s
30.	Magnezone	Spark Electric	Wild Charge Electric	2	114s

Prinplup Overview

Prinplup Water
Max CP at Level 40 1701| Max CP at Level 50 1923
ATK 150		DEF 139		HP 162
Weak To: Strong Against: Electric Grass Fire Ice Steel Water

Prinplup Move Sets

Prinplup has access to this set of moves as a raid boss:

Prinplup’s best moveset in Pokémon GO is Metal Claw and Hydro Pump. It deals 9.42 damage per second, and it can deal a total of 178.1 damage, on average, before Prinplup faints.

Weather Effects

Your top attackers will have Grass type moves, which are both boosted by Sunny/Sunny weather, which works great in your favour. However for your Electric attackers to be boosted you do risk boosting Prinplups potential move-pool in Rainy weather. This will however yield you with a weather boosted encounter! If you’re solo-ing this raid and looking for a bit of help, Sunny or Sunny weather is what you’re looking for. However, bear in mind this is a Tier 3 boss so if you’re out with a friend then Prinplup should not be hard to defeat in any weather!